Change Negative Body Image to Positive in Weeks Without Prescription Drugs

If you want to go from negative body image to positive body image in a very short time without drugs, this is very possible, so don't underestimate yourself. Negative body image goes beyond not just liking your nose. Negative body image primarily strikes women, and often, the perception is way out of proportion to what the woman looks like. It's one thing to hate your heavy thighs, but when negative body image causes a woman to hide, avoid social situations, and nasty thoughts about her body intrude upon her all day long, this is a true issue of negative body image wrecking a woman's life.

There is no magic pill for overcoming negative body image, so if you think drugs will help, abandon that idea at once, even though your doctor may have you thinking drugs are the answer. A woman has been trained to have a negative body image. Prescription drugs will not correct this faulty learning process. A woman must relearn to love her body. Women can accomplish this because at one point, all women loved their bodies: as toddlers and preschoolers and even a little older. Kids this age have no concept of body flaws. It's possible for a woman to completely revert (or almost) back to that way of thinking.

Just because you want to change something about your body doesn't mean you can't have a positive body image or love your body. A woman can have a positive body image and still be committed to losing weight and firming up, in the same way that a smoker can have a positive body image while making efforts to quit smoking. Wanting to lose weight or firm up the arms are not the same as avoiding social situations because you hate your body.

Change negative body image to positive body image - Focus on what your body can DO, not what it looks like. Again, I must make something clear: Disliking, for example, your ears or skin tone, is not the same as having a negative or distorted body image. A woman can hate her stringy limp hair, but still have a positive body image. A woman can wish her lips were fuller or feet smaller, but still have a positive body image.

The more you get caught up with what your legs and arms can DO, the more positive your body image will become, even if there truly are things about your looks to be miffed about.

HIT THE GYM. Yes, that's right. There's only one way a woman can learn to focus on what her amazing body can do: WORK OUT. Many women (if not most) with downbeat body images don't do a lot of exercise. If you're not into working out, then GET INTO IT RIGHT AWAY, even if it's just the gym's spin class, light impact aerobics class, or the stationary bike. You don't have to swallow an elephant all at once. Just get through the gym's doors.

As your fitness improves, exercise more intensely. Make goals: Not how you look, but how well you perform: speed, duration, pedal resistance, amount of weight lifted. Measure progress by taking note of your increasing ease at doing things that once tired you out or made you sore.

A woman can become stronger than the average man if she works out hard enough, WITHOUT sacrificing a feminine attractive appearance. Actually, nothing is more unattractive than a woman who hates her body. Because when a woman has a sour body image, this will show in how she moves, walks, interacts with people, and how she grooms and dresses.

If you're walking down the street knowing that you're stronger than, or as strong, as the average man passing you by, I can't begin to tell you what this does for body image. When you know you can break little Bambi in half and deck the next jerk who harasses you, it's impossible to have a negative body image.

Alright, maybe this is getting a little carried away, but you get the point: A woman who initially can only bench press 45 pounds, is going to feel a lot better about her physique when she can bench press 100 pounds. A woman will not bulk up. A woman will have more uplifted breasts from chest workouts, along with firmer trimmer arms and more attractive shoulders. Imagine what will happen to your crummy body image when you can now run like the wind on a treadmill, whereas when you first began, you could barely sustain a brisk walk without huffing and puffing.

Bottom line: The sure cure for downtrodden body image is to get hooked on exercise and become very physically fit.